GC Myers- Brighter Days Ahead
It’s New Year’s eve tonight and we’ll shake off the dust of yet another year and move into the next, all clean and shiny with that new year smell. Well, that’s the popular belief. We are, of course, who we are and no amount of calendar voodoo will alter that.
But that’s okay. We should be okay with ourselves and just ride along on the tides of time. Good and bad things happen along the way and both can be tolerated if we just can understand and accept who we are.
I think that’s why I chose this painting at the top and the song below to end 2014. The painting is titled Brighter Days Ahead and has a brightness and optimism that jibes well with its title. But the darkness underneath gives it some balance that keeps it from being too giddily gleeful.
Yes, there are brighter days ahead but there are some darker ones as well. But having a belief in who we are, believing that we have the balance and strength to withstand troubles and accept the good with grace makes this brightness seem more tangible and less wishful thinking.
The song, New Year’s Prayer, is from the late Jeff Buckley who in his short life left us a remarkable version of the Leonard Cohen song, Hallelujah, and much more. This song has a mantra-like feel to it with the phrase … feel no shame for what you are… as a refrain. It doesn’t look forward or back with any hope or regret– it is just in the moment. And that’s how I feel about the turning of this year.
Wishing you all a good New Year with the hope that feel no shame for what you are.
Redtree Times 